The CM and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee have already started tours of districts with an eye on the panchayat elections.

Adhikari also had a brief meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament and later met BJP national president J P Nadda and Union Minister Kiren Rijiju.

GRSE has launched six vessels in eight months (May 22 – till date), including the prestigious 2ND P17A, two in-house designed survey vessels (large), a fast patrol vessel, an ocean going passenger and cargo ferry for Guyana.

The move from the BJP leaders came on a day when the police had gone to their residence in Asansol in Paschim Medinipur district to question them. However, after finding the house locked, the police summoned Chaitali Tiwari for questioning at 10 am on Thursday.

Following a complaint by Jiaul Laskar's kin, the district administration had given Rs 5 lakh each as compensation to the families and assured a government job and an inquiry by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) into the matter.

Surprisingly, the incident involving the alleged attempt to murder took place in 2021 but the FIR was filed on Monday evening, hours after a court in New Delhi granted production warrant to the ED to bring Mondal to the national capital for questioning in connection with the cattle smuggling case.

Holding banners and posters, the protesters slammed the state government for failing to provide them jobs despite clearing the examination.

Shortly after 11 am after receiving the summons, Mondal and Shan appeared at the agency's Nizam Palace office in Kolkata.

Becharam Manna, the MLA from Singur, was on Sunday addressing a group of people demanding the construction of subways in Chanditala, Jaykrishnapur, Nandankanan and Mollapara of Hooghly district.

The incident occurred during a special gram sabha meeting at the panchayat office in Bhalluk where Matangini BDO Amit Kumar Gayen and village pradhan Sarat Meta were present.

TMC's Paschim Medinipur district co-ordinator Ajit Maity announced this today and said the directive came from party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

Lalan Sheikh is the main accused in the Bogtui massacre of March 21, 2022 in which 10 people were charred to death after their houses were set on fire in retaliation against the killing of Trinamool Congress’ panchayat deputy head Bhadu Sheikh.

Ten persons were charred to death at Bogtui village in the district on the night of March 21 this year after their houses were set on fire in retaliation against the killing of Trinamool Congress' local panchayat deputy head Bhadu Sheikh earlier that day.

On Thursday, the state government approached the Supreme Court with a plea to vacate the immunity granted to Adhikari by the High Court's single-judge bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha on December 8.

Shah, who is on a two-day visit to Kolkata, visited the state BJP headquarters in the city and held a meeting with party leaders for half an hour. Sources said discussions were held on how to strengthen the organisation at the grassroots level.

The eight-day film festival was inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the presence of Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Jaya Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Mahesh Bhatt, Kumar Sanu, Arijit Singh, Shatrughan Sinha and others from the Bengali film industry.

The chief minister says ‘we will raise this demand from Bengal although not officially’.

Though the court allowed the CID to investigate the case, it ordered the investigation, statements and evidence would be videographed.

Leader of Opposition and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari, and fellow party leader Jitendra Tiwari, among others, attended the event. The incident took place after Adhikari left the venue.

According to sources with the state secretariat, the chief secretary has made it clear that those with pucca houses will be left out of the list of beneficiaries for the welfare scheme.

The Health Department officials maintained that no meeting will be held till the students call off their strike, sources said.

The first international literary festival in Kolkata and Eastern India, the AKLF, a non-profit initiative and free for everyone, is the only literary festival which is organised by a bookstore, the 100-year-old Oxford Bookstore.

Senior TMC leaders Chandrima Bhattacharya, Firhad Hakim, Subrata Bakshi, Aroop Biswas, Shovandeb Chattopadhyay, Mala Roy, Madan Mitra, Debasish Kumar, Kunal Ghosh among others were present.

Though CBI officials claimed that Sheikh “died by suicide”, Sheikh's wife Reshma Bibi lodged a written complaint at Rampurhat police station, alleging “custodial torture and murder”.